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Core 2 Caving by Indy Print E-mail
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We set off in the fresh breeze on a Monday morning at 8.00 am, all in our suits, both blue and orange.

We decided to split up in two groups, one group would go to the Royal Cave first and the other would go to the Wild cave. Once we reached the Wild cave we split into two groups. Each group had two girls and about four boys. We were fortunate enough to have two guys help us crawl through some of the roughest, bumpiest and smallest of holes and tunnels. Their names were Phil and Dave. After we had met them we got our helmets and fiddled around for a while to get them to fit our heads properly, and they already had head torches on them which was a big bonus. When we first entered the cave we slipped all the way down, like a kid falls down in a slide. We all did it as a team and successfully made it out, even though we were all totally covered in dirt.

After we arrived back to the Park where the Royal Cave was, the other group had already made us a beautiful lunch of yummy chicken burgers. After we ate our lunch and packed everything up so we could leave it as we found it, we decided to head up to the Royal Cave as the other group left for the Wild Cave. The Royal Cave had a few stairs and a little light breeze but it was huge and some of the parts of the cave were so gorgeous . We also imagined things out of some of the shapes that the crystals made. Some were big and some were small. The small ones were at least 100 years old and it was so amazing to see how old something so small could be. 

By Indy, (03/06/2014)

 

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